Why? Because soon we will be running out of chocolate. Cocoa farming can't keep up with our appetites, and in the future a single bar could cost us more than $11. The world could run out of affordable chocolate within 20 years as farmers abandon their crops in the global cocoa basket of West Africa.
Farmers in the countries that produce the bulk of cocoa bought by the multinationals who control the market have found the crop a bitter harvest. The minimal rewards they have historically received do not provide incentives for the time-consuming work of replanting as their trees die off - a task that usually means moving to a new area of canopied forest and waiting three to five years for a new crop to mature.
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